"The Night Of The Underground Terror" turned out to be another of our fun shows. Nehemiah Persoff, who guest starred in an episode titled, "The Night Of The Deadly Blossom" was back and everybody was in a fun mood; much to the dismay of our lovable sound mixer, Andy Gilmore. Mr. Persoff with his gang of hoodlums were a jury of five seated beneath the roof of an outdoor viewing booth a few feet above the ground.

The men consisted of Whitey Hughes, Red West, Terry Leonard, Jerry Laveroni, and myself. We were on the outdoor set of a deserted Civil War prison camp looking down at Agent James West, stripped to the waist, with his arms stretched out and his wrists bound in stocks. Next to him, stripped and bound in the same fashion, is Colonel Mosely (played by Jeff Corey), former Commandant of the prison where Colonel Mosely has hidden one million dollars in gold.

The camera is viewing the booth from a distance as well as close-up, so a microphone had to be hidden on the floor near our feet. This mike would cover our dialogue. Someone had picked up a large bag of shelled peanuts and as the crew prepared for the shot, we ate the peanuts and tossed the shells on the wooden floor at our feet. Unbeknownst to us, Andy Gilmore, who is able to hear a pin drop through the mike on the floor, is listening to our feet scramble about crushing the empty shells. The noise was driving him nuts (no pun intended). He then made the terrible mistake of informing us of his dilemma by asking, "What the hell are you guys doing over there?" After explaining the noise we now realized we were making, we really drove him nuts; but, just until the director was ready to "roll the camera."

Artemus enters the scene doing a beautiful job as a naive prospector with a divining rod capable of finding gold. Gold! Just like that which we are about to torture Colonel Mosely to get. In his comical process of relieving us of our guns and getting us to stand aside, Artemus frees his comrade and a fight follows.

Though some may have gone unnoticed, several unexpected surprises happened during this fight but as usual, Bob quickly improvised and managed to finish without a camera cut. Because of this ability to improvise, Bob must have saved the studio untold thousands of dollars.

Fortunately, Bob wears clean underwear; during the fight sequence, Bob tore his pants up the back. As the roof of the viewing booth came down on us, Bob maneuvered me around the fallen roof and knocked me over the railing to the ground, where I landed on my head. In the confusion, Terry picked up a real chair in place of a breakaway and hit Bob over the head with it. Aside from the unexpected problems, everything turned out just fine and we finished the fight in one take.

Terry worked several shows with The Guys and has since worked his way to one of the top stuntmen in the business. It was Terry who was responsible for the fantastic stunts you enjoyed watching Harrison Ford perform in "RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK."